Tag Archive: science

Not really but today – after posting yesterday’s “we are doomed” – I came across some interesting articles about what some people are up to. (I know I am so yesterday…)

So here is another video:

As Planetary Interaction is BIG in EVE I became curious about that the hell they are up to.

Turns out Planetary Resources is behind this. Backed with some heavyweight investors like Charles Simonyi, Larry Page, John C. Whitehead and others they are bent on exploring and excavating asteroids in space. YAY!

Seems like we might not go extinct after all, but don’t hold your breath! 😉

The legal issues are pretty interesting philosophically too: space is everyone’s but you can mine and therefore in effect own planetary bodies. (note to self: I must get my family a nice rock for future prosperity… my Girlfriend’s first question will be: do they also come in deep blue? ohh boy…)

In short: if a civilization’s innovation hasn’t got enough time to invent feasible space travel within their respective solar system, they will probably simply run out of resources (iron, phosphor, methane, aluminium, titan, hidrogen, etcetera) by the time invention catches up.

Forget Godzilla, forget middle east or any nuclear crisis. This is the real doomsday situation and it is more probable than Earth meeting with an asteroid of 20km in diameter or with anything I listed a sentence before.

IMHO there is a real possibility that the reason why we do not hear alien radio transmissions is because they have disassembled their (radio) dishes some 10 million years ago to use the minerals… in their new car that ran out of fuel the second day it was used. Hence they have – by this time – reverted back to a primitive tribal society using sticks and stones. And the wonders of old are nothing more than myths. Myths of people flying, people diving in the sea for hours, days… and they say: yeah, come on! How could we have done that?